Käthe Kollwitz German’s ‘Self-Portrait in Profile’

Grinnell Museum of Art Collection Highlights

Highlights from the Grinnell College Museum of Art collection, with expert commentary from Associate Director Dan Strong.

Creative & Performing Arts

● Feb 13, 2025 ●

Daniel Strong

by Grinnell College Museum of Art Associate Director Dan Strong

Käthe Kollwitz

German (1867-1945)

Self-Portrait in Profile, 1927

Lithograph

The John L. and Roslyn Bakst Goldman Collection of German Expressionist Prints (2001.067)

Käthe Kollwitz

Self-Portrait in Profile, 1927

Käthe Kollwitz is one of the most important figures in the history of printmaking.

Concerned with the hardships of the working class and with political upheavals in German history, her life was marked by the death of a son in World War I and persecution for her own politics at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. Her unflinching self-portraits, particularly those from late in life, make her a peer of Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

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